Preparing to Monetize, Threads Launches New Tools for Users (axios.com) 17
"We're testing a few new ways to plan and manage your presence on Threads," announced top Threads/Instagram executive Adam Mosseri, promising their 200 million-plus users "enhanced insights to help you better understand your followers and how posts perform, and the ability to save multiple drafts with scheduling coming soon."
Axios reports: Helping creators avoid burnout has become a growing focus for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said in July that the company's new generative AI tools can alleviate certain tasks like communicating with followers. Thursday's announcement was positioned as helping both businesses and creators — suggesting that Meta is ramping up plans to start monetizing Threads, which could be as early as this year.
Axios reports: Helping creators avoid burnout has become a growing focus for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said in July that the company's new generative AI tools can alleviate certain tasks like communicating with followers. Thursday's announcement was positioned as helping both businesses and creators — suggesting that Meta is ramping up plans to start monetizing Threads, which could be as early as this year.
The joke I was looking for: Cesspools (Score:2)
In it's best days I always thought Twitter was something of a cesspool. I used Twitter "episodically" for many years, but basically to vent steam (or worse) and can't recall ever seeing much of value over there. Sometimes it smelled funny, but more often it stank to high heaven. I left during the transition to the the gigantic stinking cesspool formerly known as Twitter. (Question for the reader: Who is still using it? Bonus points for persuasive why.)
In contrast, besides the pervasive smell of feces, Faceb
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s/it's best days/its best days/
Preview remains insufficient? But it still isn't the feature I'd be most likely to chip in to fix...
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I used Twitter "episodically" for many years, but basically to vent steam (or worse) and can't recall ever seeing much of value over there
Of course you wouldn't see anything of value, and you explained why. Look up the parable of the two villages [medium.com]. You come and dump shit, and complain "this place stinks". I still use Twitter, for gamedev. I follow only artists and gamedev people, and I have "Control Panel for Twitter". It's good through my filters. Still major world events bleed in, but not in a disruptive, engagement-baity way.
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I still use Twitter, for gamedev. I follow only artists and gamedev people
If you only want to use Twitter as a one-way communications medium it works fine for that. It's miserable as a platform to engage in discussions on though, because the signal-to-noise ratio is atrocious. Furthermore, unless you're already relatively well-known outside of Twitter in order to generate a following, posting to your own feed amounts to just shouting into an empty void.
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Sounds as if you're using it like a Discord server, which IMHO would probably be better suited for discussions than Twitter.
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Constructive response and my reply is that I initially tried to use it for conversations and discussions before reaching your conclusion. I don't think I ever attempted to increase the stink, but I basically agree with you. However you didn't consider the gamesters who definitely decrease the SNR with their own noise in search of followers. (But I think TicTok is much worse for that (though only on brief exposure--too nauseating).)
Learning from Metaverse I see (Score:2)
How many people are using Threads? (Score:2)
Maybe I'm showing my age, but I signed up for an account, but other than the FB app showing a Threads selection, I never bother with it. There are plenty of social networks, and even though FB is old, people stick there just due to momentum. Threads may offer a Twitter/X style interface, but why not just go the distance and go to Mastodon, which is a nice change?
Maybe Threads has a market, but it seems to me just another social media network where I make an account, toss the app on my phone, enable 2FA, m
It's taking over Twitter pretty rapidly (Score:1, Flamebait)
Threads currently reports 175 million active users and being that there are publicly traded company that number is probably relatively accurate.
I don't think anyone who uses Twitter hasn't noticed the problems. Specifically the complete lack of content moderation for right-wing extremists coupled with the complete lack of content moderation for spam has m
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The bigger issue with your theology rant is your old and you have no idea where the two newer generations are hanging out.
It's not X or Threads, those are just old people ranting at each other about which is better.
Twitter is an old man's site (Score:3)
Facebook has stayed ahead of the curve by buying up any potential competitor but there's nothing you can do when there is no competitor because the younger generations just aren't interested in your product.
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No old people stick due to momentum (like looking at /. on the weekends) younger people go were all of there friends are that's the reason Meta buys every semi-popular platform other than Discord which is where most of them hang out.
Re:How many people are using Threads? (Score:4, Interesting)
Maybe Threads has a market, but it seems to me just another social media network where I make an account, toss the app on my phone, enable 2FA, make sure the keys and recovery stuff is saved securely, and forget about it.
For you it may be just that (probably because you're sane), but for many people on the world clicking through social media consumes a significant portion of their life. The world is full of people glued to their phones, addicted to likes and rage content, oh and bored people who have nothing better to do than to tell others what they are going to do to their mothers. The internet is full of people with just that kind of boredom seeking that weird "fulfilment", literally 100s of millions of such people.
At least Slashdot has content which is relevant and worth interacting with
So your problem here is that you confuse general purpose with specific purpose. Slashdot is specific purpose, you gravitated here for that purpose. Twitter, Facebook, Threads, they are general purpose content. You actively need to seek out the relevant thing. To illustrate my point, on Twitter you can find people and content on virtually every subject. Sure specific people may not be on there, Linus Torvalds hasn't posted in nearly a decade, but the topics can be quite rich. However to find that topic you need to be on the platform and actively seek it out. If you let yourself get force fed whatever the algorithm gives you you're going to be insanely disappointed.